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this is wjz-tv, wjz-hd and wjz.com, baltimore. from the city to the counties to your neighborhood, now is complete coverage. it's wjz, maryland's news station. >> we're lucky to have what we have. it's gone in fifteen seconds. tragic storms leveling entire towns. i'm adam may. the death toll is rising tonight. 38 people now confirmed dead and more still unaccounted for. kentucky and indiana were hit the hardest. susan mcguinness. >> we hope we haven't left any

stone unturned at this point. >> reporter: they hope to get to their owner. >> that's the only picture we found of our family left. >> reporter: the tornado demolished the town, sending a school bus into a building, dropping a tractor trailer on a gas station and tearing the walls off of homes. >> some of the most intense and incredible damage i've ever seen. >> reporter: the tornado headed across the state line into eastern kentucky with a path of construction 52 miles long. classifying it as f 4. >> it's in the violent category most tornadoes never come near to. >> reporter: one survivor is at a louisville hospital. they found the 2 year old in a field near her home. in ohio a twister tore up the town of moscow and at least one

died in alabama with the first storm starting friday morning. back in henryville long time resident wayne jones will have to start by finding a new place to live. in henryville, indiana. >> president obama has called promising federal assistance in the recovery. costa concordia ship wreck brings families back to italy. the luxury liner capsized with 25 bodies fulled from the sea and 70 people still missing. they're wondering if they should have manslaughter charges. he's accused of causing a wreck and then abandoning ship. a 5 year old girl beaten to

death. community comes together to remember the girl. weijia jiang has more on the latest from the case. weijia? >> reporter: there were as many adults as young ones at the vigil. nobody can make sense of it. inconsolable after that. in ash burton elementary to remember the girl. the sadness is mixed with anger over how she was killed. police say maya's father matthew became so angry after she soiled herself that he confessed to beating his child repeatedly with hands and began to hit her all over her body. >> they found bruising, broken

bones, fracture to the face. >> reporter: she's her grandmother. >> i hate to say that, but he did that little girl wrong. >> reporter: it happened inside kar's house. stayed there sometimes because it was close to school. her kindergarten teacher. >> she was a lovely, lovely little girl. she was vibrant. she loved to learn. she was very popular in the classroom. >> reporter: several classmates attended the candlelight vigil. too young to be familiar with death, yet handling tragedy with grace like keeping her memory alive. >> she's like everything you wanted to be. i love maya. >> reporter: maya's funeral scheduled for tuesday in west

baltimore. weijia jiang, wjz eyewitness news. >> thank you weijia, so much. facing first-degree murder. a maryland police officer is hit by a drunk driver during a traffic stop that happened along route 40 on friday night. he was pulled over on the side of the road. shepherd was out of the vehicle. injuries are not serious. the driver who hit the cop car is now facing drunk driving charges. a tense standoff ends in an arrest. the suspect got into an argument during a party at his home and then fired off two gunshots in the 3500 block of ash burton. the s.w.a.t. team was called in. the suspect is facing assault and weapons charges. a multibillion dollar legal settlement reached over the 2010 gulf oil spill. $7.8 million settlement comes

just two days before a major trial set to take place in federal court. under the terms of this proposed settlement, bp will compensate individuals, owners, and businesses that suffered financial losses because of the oil spill. mitt romney scores a win in washington state with the primary victory tonight just days before super tuesday. reports from wjz tonight with ten states now for grabs at the most critical point in the candidate's campaign. >> reporter: inside some caucus sites, it was standing room only. in others, voters were turned away as tens of thousands at washington state republicans made their picks for a presidential nominee. front-runner mitt romney won the contest. drew in to push hard for his first victory, but came up short. may give romney a boost into the critical super tuesday

contest. saturday, he rallied supporters in ohio where he's lock maryland a close race with rick santorum, but romney stuck to hammering president obama and highlighting his business background. >> with incomes having gone down, we know a president who knows the economy to fix the economy. >> reporter: santorum used the editorial to challenge romney on health care. in it, romney said he supported individual mandates, tax penalties that inspired president obama's health care bill. >> it's bad enough he recommended it. it's worse he wouldn't come clean with the people in this primary that he did. >> reporter: newt gingrich said although he's counting on a win in georgia t state he represented for 20 years, he feels he'll do well in ohio. >> we'll get as many delegates as we can. >> reporter: more than 400 delegates up for grabs on super

tuesday. wjz eyewitness news. >> ron paul comes in next and then gingrich with a distant fourth. in the meantime, rush limbaugh is apologizing for insulting calling a slut and saying she should make a sex tape. the contraception, and now said he chose the wrong words in the content and didn't mean to attack. advertisers also dropped support for the limbaugh show. the gas tax proposal. along route 40, protesters here waved signs at drivers who seemed to share in their frustration. others signed a petition

against the bill at 2% a year. >> what we know for sure is that we're all going to pay more if we do nothing. >> the guy just has no understanding of what's going on. >> the president mike miller said the bill is on the back burner for now and may be taken up later on in the session. man took a famous photograph passes away. how the picture did and didn't change his life. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. >> it's precisely 9:30 at chicken roost deli. a ritual started some two decades ago usually ends in a crowd with photographers. >> we're here to discuss the life of sam stearns. >> made a bit of news himself.

>> the person that took the photo of john kennedy saluting went by. >> this photographer in his image, the only photographer to catch one of the briefest yet most powerful images of the kennedy presidency. >> when he got that shot, he said, i got something here. his boss was all over him about, what are you doing here? >> sam's instinct was correct. history came to him. >> his whole career was wound around the picture and put him in the spotlight. he became not just an every day photographer. >> left upi in the '70s coming back to the studio. worked for united press international. owned the image, so iconic, the rights had been resold twice for millions of dollars. >> stan wound up with $25.

that's it. >> in annapolis, wjz eyewitness news. we have more to come on wjz eyewitness news tonight. check this out. a stunt gone wrong. a chopper crashes right into the ground. we'll tell you how the pilot actually survived it. >> lives can't be taken for granted. we have to live each day like it's our last. a campus mourning three students on the way to spring break. who police say is to blame. collapses on a woman. why the homeowner may be to blame herself. in baltimore on the virtual map. how one smartphone app could draw more visitors to charm city. i'm gigi barnett, and that story is next. i'm meteorologist bernadette woods. it was a warm start to the weekend but we have changes coming our way. we have your complete morning forecast coming up after this break.

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49 degrees in cloudy. bernadette will have the forecast in a moment. a helicopter slammed to the ground and both pilots

survived. they were protected by the rigid frame of the chopper, part of a film crew shooting a stunt for a television program. that was not the stunt they were intending. police released the video. >> there is a car driving on the northbound. >> moments later on interstate 75, the accident happened with a car of five female students with the wrong way driver. it's believed the students were headed out of town on spring break. they went to the hospital after complaining of a stomach ache. the doctors saw the circle. at first, they thought it was a

bracelet and then in the girl. >> when i heard 37 of these magnets had been swallowed, it frightened me to death. >> the magnets were so strong, they put a hole in her stomach but after surgery, on her way to a full recovery. be careful what you eat, kids. a woman's roof of a mobile home came on top of her. she was in the process of demolishing the home because she thought it was infested with termites. they were pulling her out of the wreckage. fortunately, the woman was not seriously hurt. clicking our way to the top. a popular smartphone app now placing baltimore on a short list of cities for the best destinations. it started out as a friendly competition. >> this is four square. do you know what it is?

it's a popular smartphone app that tracks its users in a unique way. >> if you're at a restaurant or apartment building, you can tag yourself there and then the mayor if you check a bunch of times. >> badges come with discounts at their favorite spots. the app creators launched a contest to boost tourism worldwide. they wanted to know which cities could create the best lists of hot spots and the top four cities would win a badge. baltimore pulled them all. it's the city's tourism. he said social media is so widely used that new visitors who use four square will feel a

wide range of baltimore. >> everything from museum art to frank zappa statue. this is now going to be an even more important tool in telling our story. >> four square says its city badge contest was so popular, many people logged in and signed up and planned to give out four badges. instead, it had to pass out five. i'm gigi barnett, wjz eyewitness news. >> hope your first flight in addition, des moines, stafford connecticut. bernadette said we have a few friends, you know who you are. maybe there's something positive to four square after all. >> yes, turned out to be a beautiful afternoon. work weather carried over today. we'll get to that in a moment.

i want to start with the satellite radar. the rain last night into the morning. notice the clouds from the southeast. they start to clear but then they start spreading inland again. that's because the front that moves through is out and then moving back to the north once again. the winds turn northwest that will eventually bringing in cold air. it's still 49 degrees outside. at this hour, 52 in d.c. and a high of 62 with the average of 49. we're going to be above it again before we go below it in the beginning part of the week. when we open it up, we'll eventually come into play but what's down here will come tomorrow because of this front. this is in the south. this is throwing everything back off to the north. mainly for us, it will be southern maryland. it will be parts of the eastern

shore and southern parts with rain into tomorrow. when it does, the cooler air will follow for the beginning part of the week. that leaves us and then monday with the cooler air has a front coming through. that one is going to cut by for the northwest with snow showers mainly west of maryland with snow showers as it passes through. and it gets out with another one opening in the second half of the week. the forecast is like this on the waters. winds pick up out of the west. a chance for rain into tomorrow with the storm passing by. our low 38 tonight and tomorrow up to 50. that gets out of here and as it does, the cooler air follows with a chance of rain and snow showers. for monday and tuesday. but by wednesday, it's all gone and we are back up into the 60s, not 50s, but 60s for the second half of the week, adam. >> thursday looking good. in sports in maryland, one away

from queen of the basketball tournament. stan will have the tournament ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

all right, stan with the sports report. >> let's talk a little bit of good acc basketball from a good team. semifinal action from the post conference tournament. one step away from capturing the crown in greensboro. the fifth straight win. 53% overall shooting for wake forest. look right there the passes beyond hawkins. alyssa thomas. look at that move. four assists, one steal.

maryland/georgia tech tomorrow after wake forest with 73-58. defending hoops champs, patterson down by night. milford mill. you just saw kyle thomas at the university bound super star with 11 of the 34 quarter. number five patterson. 75-72. baseball now. orioles spring training report. short and sweet performance. mark reynolds and then not bad for a 19 year old. another pitcher on a handful of guys who pitch the ball in that roster. brian maddens with a of guys. madden is doing whatever he can to improve on last season. today was a progressive step if

you look at the big picture. >> i thought brian threw the ball well. he had one change-up and got a fly ball on it and his tempo in between pitches was good. >> and, in the meantime, in catonsville, look at aaron with the long stick. 10-9 in overtime. and north carolina beat duke in men's basketball tonight for the regular season acc championship, but the real title is whoever wins the tournament like maryland might win tomorrow.

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well that's it for us tonight. be sure to watch tim and gigi tomorrow on wjz news. thanks for watching wjz eyewitness news on wjz, maryland's news station. criminal minds is up next. nill see you again tomorrow